Karenna Gore Schiff
Author, Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America

Karenna Gore Schiff was born in Tennessee and was raised both there and in Washington, D.C. where her father, Al Gore, represented the state as a United States Congressman and Senator before serving as Vice-President of the United States. She received her B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1995 and her J.D. from Columbia University in 2000.

Upon graduation, she moved to Madrid, Spain for a year where she worked at El Pais newspaper and then returned to take a job at Slate magazine in Seattle. In 2000, she worked in her father’s campaign for president as the Youth Outreach Chair. Following that, she practiced law at Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett and then worked with the Association to Benefit Children, under the direction of Gretchen Buchenholz, one of the nine women featured in Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America.

Lighting the Way is a profile of nine courageous, train-blazing women who put themselves on the line to combat racism, cruelty to children, pollution, disease, bigotry, povery, and to challenge the limits put on women as public leaders. Filled with riveting stories of personal strength and conviction, Ms. Schiff’s true passion and admiration for her subjects provides a major contribution to our understanding of social change in the last century and the women who brought it about against all odds.

Ms. Schiff has also has written articles for Newsweek, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Harper’s Bazaar. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.